Part of me wonders if a lot of that baggage comes from C's background compared to Lisp. Or, especially when C's origins were originally to operate a PDP-8 I won

Part of me wonders if a lot of that baggage comes from C's background compared to Lisp. Or, especially when C's origins were originally to operate a PDP-8 I wonder if the goals and ideas behind each contributed to why the way they are.